Supporter for ditching-machines



(No Model.)

G. W; KING.

SUPPORTBR FOR DITGHING MACHINES.

No. 335,759.. Patented Feb. 9; 1886.

m/um W T/VESSES N, PETERS, F'holwljihognpher. Washington, D4 C.

NiTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W'. KING, OF MARION, OHIO.

SUPPORTER FOR DlTCH-lNG-MACHINES.

ESPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,759, dated February 9, 1886.

Application filed OctoberlS, 1885. Serial No. 179,983. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. KING, of Marion, in the county of Marion and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Ditching-Machines and I do herebydeclare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in supports for ditching machines. It often happens that the soil through which a ditch is to be cut is so soft that it will not support thewheels of a ditching-machine, and it also is often desirable to deepen or clear out old ditches in which the mud is very soft or the ditch partiallyfilled with water, and the banks not firm enough to support a machine of the ordinary construction.

The object of my present invention is to provide a support for any of the improved forms of ditching'machines which will admit of the machine being advantageously employed in deepening ditches partially filled with mud or water, or both, the banks of which are soft, and for cutting new ditches through soft or hard ground.

With this end in View myinveution consists in a suitable frame-work having a sled or runner bottom adapted to support a ditchingmachine.

My invention further consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through the support located in a ditch and having an excavator mounted thereon, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

A represents the outside covering of the framework, which may be of planking or metal provided with flaring sides, having a width suitable to admit it between the sides of the ditch, and so braced by crossgirders B,

' uprights O, and diagonal braces D, or otherwise to suit different sized and proportioned ditchers that it will form a stable support for The bottom of the frame-work the excavator.

E may or may not be curved upwardly in front, and forms a sled or runner on which the support may be readily slid along in the soil or mud.

' It is intended that the excavator shall be operated from the end of a swinging crane, as

The front edges of the covering of the sup port are preferably provided With cutters E, adapted to trim the edges of the ditch; but these are not necessarily attached.

The deck of the framework is adapted to support any of the ordinary forms of ditchingmachines which can be employed to excavate in front of the support.

The support is quite inexpensive, and it admits of the use of the best forms of excavators in places Where they have not heretofore been capable of use, and thus serves to satisfy a long felt need.

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a hollow frame constructed substantially as described, and having flaring sides'and a sled or runner bottom, of an excavator mounted on said frame, substantially as set forth.

2. A support for ditching machines, consisting, essentially, ofa frame-work provided with a sled or runner bottom and flaring sides adapted to fit Within the ditch, and cutters secured to the front edges, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. KING.

Vitnesses:

J. E. DAVIDS, J ENNIE M. DAVIDS. 

